- WordPress.com free features: http://en.wordpress.com/features
- WordPress.com types of blogs, banned activities etc.: http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs
- Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, a free online book: http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent , and a Lessig NPR interview at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1785931
- Lewis Hyde: “What Is Art For? The poet, philosopher, translator and scholar Lewis Hyde has spent his life trying to figure that out — and became a literary cult figure in the process.” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/magazine/16hyde-t.html and Professor Hyde’s website http://www.lewishyde.com/
- “Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business” By Chris Anderson http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all — Some of Anderson’s comments are glib, some of his examples no longer are valid. But his overall point about prices decreasing to what might as well be zero, increasingly is how our online world runs. Anderson also popularized the now-vital theory of The Long Tail.